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Jerusalem Shots

More ...
...just in case anyone is interested- the villa in the last
shot is in Old Katamon- now under restoration,an example of late XIX-th century Turkish architecture one can still find in Jerusalem .
...more in the next post:)

Natania

This city was founded in 1928 and named after an American Jewish
philantropist Nathan Strauss.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netanya Some write it as Netanya.
Anyhow- there are some beautiful beaches
and great people.
...sign on the 3rd photo
identifying the beach for religious
--- women are separated from men...
by the way this beach is closed on saturday:)

Haifa

I love Haifa as well - one of most beautiful locations in the world-
- reminds me of SF and Anchorage.
And I'd live there, if it were not for the damn 90% humidity.
All coastal plain in Israel has this minus-
where as for Jerusalem -
here its 15-30% most of the year:D
:(...although its pourring cats and dogs right this moment..with thounder:hammer:

:(...although its pourring cats and dogs right this moment..with thounder:hammer:

We get lots of rain here in the pacific northwest - anywhere from a drizzle to a downpour ... everything in between! I miss thunderstorms - we get a few but not as many as we had in southern Idaho ~ I love to see the sky crackle!

Haifa

.....honestly,
after NYC with its 105'F in August and 2'F in February,
after Juneau ,AK with its rain 8 days a week all year around,
Anchorage with ( i never forget) a first snowfall on Halooween of 1994 - only 52 inches....
I'll take Jerusalem's dryness and average 320 sunny days a year.
And if i want to make a "beach saturday "- 1/2 hour taxi ride to Tel Aviv...

JERUSALEM's KENNEDY Memorial

Just north of Jerusalem in the mountains
between moshavs Ora and Aminadav is located JFK Memorial .
Built in 1966 by architect David Resnick.
Among others his projects were
The Mormon University's branch on Mt. of Olives,
The Jerusalem Hyatt and
the Resnick dorms of the Hebrew U,
where i had lived a semester in 1983.
Check out the strip-like columns- there are 51 of them-
50 states and DC.
There also is a grave of Arthur Rubinstein and a memorl to Elsa Lasker-Schueller .
And some magic vistas...
all that in my next post.